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The Struggle of Becoming Established in a Deprived Inner-City Neighbourhood

May, David - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The theory of established-outsider figurations developed by Norbert Elias is a use-ful tool for examining deprived neighbourhoods. The case of this paper is Dort-mund Nordstadt in Germany, an old inner-city neighbourhood which from its early days has housed the newly arrived immigrants. Elias...

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Formation of Segregated and Integrated Groups

Watts, Alison - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

empty group is added to a segregated stable partition, then integration may occur. …

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Indicators of Migrants’ Socio-Professional Integration

Gregori, Emilio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Understanding and monitoring the diversity which lies under migrants’ socio-professional integration trends is a … integration of migrant people in Italy, based on data collected from administrative and official sources. This work was carried … of the theoretical concept of migrants, foreigners and integration was discussed, as well as the matters concerning the …

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Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution

Gatto, Massimo Del - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

literature on integration/agglomeration and that on city size and formation, we show that: i) devolution results in over … economic (i.e. intensity of trade) integration, the higher is the magnitude of the inefficiency. From a theoretical point of …

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The Public Management of Risk: Separating Ex Ante and Ex Post Monitors

Hiriart, Yolande; Martimort, David; Pouyet, Jerome - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

When a firm undertakes risky activities, the conflict between social and private incentives to implement safety care requires public intervention which can take the form of both monetary incentives but also ex ante or ex post monitoring, i.e., before or after an accident occurs. We delineate the...

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Which Factors Explain the Rising Ethnic Heterogeneity in Italy? An Empirical Analysis at Province Level

Cattaneo, Cristina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication,...

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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990’s

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Francesco D’Amuri; Peri, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990’s had no adverse effects on native wages and … ‘flexible’ as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …

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Foreigners, Immigrants, Host Cities: The Policies of Multi-Ethnicity in Rome. Reading Governance in a Local Context

Rossi, Claudio; Coen, Franca Eckert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

feature of the local political strategy is the “Pact of Integration”. The adoption of the Pact proposes governance as a model …

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Immigration and Local Urban Participatory Democracy: A Boston-Paris Comparison

Chaib, Linda - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

This paper deals with a comparison of two governmental initiatives in the direction of immigrants – the Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians (Boston, 1998) and Conseil de la Citoyenneté des Parisiens Non-Communautaires (Paris, 2001). In both cities, local political leaders justify their...

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Migration Restrictions and Criminal Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

We estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in migration restrictions across nationalities driven by the last round of the European Union enlargement. Unique individual-level data on a collective clemency bill enacted in Italy...

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